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Wireless Body-worn Sound System for Dance and Music Performance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2015
Abstract
The role of spatial design in music has become more prominent in recent years,mostly because of the affordability of powerful software and hardware tools.Although spatial audio tools are widely used nowadays in studios and concerthalls, there are only few examples of robust and comfortable wearable soundsystems with a suitable acoustic response. A wireless body-worn loudspeakerprototype featuring original costume elements, a hybrid full-range loudspeakerarray and an improved acoustic response was designed and implemented. The size,shape and acoustic performance of the prototype was optimised using datagathered from anechoic measurements and interviews with performers andaudiences. Future developments of this project will consider the implementationof an extended multi-channel performance platform to explore sonic and spatialrelationships created by several wearable devices on stage synchronised with amulti-loudspeaker diffusion system.
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- Organised Sound , Volume 20 , Issue 3: Aesthetic Radicalism, Future and Past , December 2015 , pp. 340 - 348
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